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My 3x great grand parents, Victor Theophile Haydel (1835-1924) and Marie Celeste Becnel (1840-1885) were both born enslaved on the @WhitPlantation. The couple who would become the ancestors of the African American Haydel family. #DESCENDANTChallenge @Participant @HGMedia 
“Victor was the son of an enslaved woman (Anna), who was herself a mulatto. Victor was fathered by Antoine Haydel, the brother of Marie Azelie Haydel. Celeste was a daughter of Francoise, the enslaved cook of Marie, and was fathered by Florestan Becnel, Marie’s brother-in-law.”
“It is known that each of these men was married, and that refusing to engage in sexual relations with a white man was not an option available to either of these women.”
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Honored to descend from such survivors: whitneyplantation.org/history/the-bi…
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Honored to descend from such survivors: whitneyplantation.org/history/the-bi…
My Grandaddy, Jack Sutton was born in 1918 and he lived to be 85 years old passing just a few weeks before my graduation in 2003. He was always in great shape even as an 85 year old and
The family always talked about him being a hard worker. #DescendantChallenge
The family always talked about him being a hard worker. #DescendantChallenge
This Christmas I learned just how hard of a worker he was. My Granddaddy used to wake up each morning at around 4 am so that he could leave the house at 5 am heading to work in Hattiesburg, MS. Hattiesburg is about 30 miles away from Richton, MS. He would often walk to work.
I thought about what that was like for him… on an every day basis and certainly as a Black man in Mississippi in the 1950s and 60s. He would repeat this process 5 days a week. And didn’t have a lot of money in spite of the back breaking hours he put in.
